Book Quote by Isabel Allende

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

— Robert Munsch

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK…

— Charles Todd

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

— Lauren Weisberger

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my…

— John Burroughs